Zohran Mamdani refused \u2014 again \u2014 to take any public questions from Post reporters on Monday, continuing a clear policy even if his campaign doesn\u2019t care to admit it.<\/p>\n
What is he afraid of?<\/p>\n
It\u2019d be one thing if the Democratic mayoral nominee simply refused to engage with The Post\u2019s columnists and editorial board.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019re talking about his attitude toward our news side \u2014 which, with the industry\u2019s general decline, at this point is the main local-news gathering operation left in New York City.<\/p>\n
His team last sent us a public schedule the day he returned from Uganda <\/a>(July 30); before that, you have to go back to April.<\/p>\n Nor did they alert us to Monday\u2019s event with Sen. Liz Warren <\/a>(though they did confirm it when we asked).<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Perhaps he\u2019s taking cues from former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who once tried to ban The Post from all news conferences because he didn\u2019t like our questions.<\/p>\n To be fair, we\u2019re seeing a bit more response from the campaign as it staffs up: On Monday, it even gave our reporters a response to some questions.<\/p>\n But the candidate himself doesn\u2019t seem to be on board: He last called on a Post reporter at a press conference on June 20, before the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n He ignored us at his July 30 conference on the Midtown shooting<\/a>, and again Monday during the Warren presser.<\/p>\n